How to quickly write cleanmarkers to jffs2 partitions?

[Jaap-Jan Boor]

On Fri, 2006-03-03 at 10:08 +0100, Mathieu Deschamps wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> "When preparing a flash partition for JFFS2, it is recommended to put 
> cleanmarkers to the erased blocks.
> This might be done my means of "-j" option of the "flash_eraseall" MTD 
> utility. Otherwise, JFFS2 will re-erase the blocks
> which contain all 0xFF and have no cleanmarker. This is an unneeded wasting of 
> time."
> 
> Source : http://www.linux-mtd.infradead.org/faq/jffs2.html
> 
> does this may be relevant ?

This is correct, however flash_eraseall does also (as it's
name suggests, erase all flash blocks, which takes
some time on NOR flash. If you 'know' the flash is erased,
it's not needed.
I used flash_eraseall to write the cleanmarkers, but without
erasing blocks (and called that utility cleanmark)

Jaap-Jan

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> Best Regards,
> 
> 
> Mathieu Deschamps.
> 
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